Tuesday 6 April 2010

220394 Pte William Gladdis, 1st Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment

Four hundred and eighty-nine British Army officers and men died on the 6th April 1918. 220394 Private William Gladdis of the 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, died in France on this day. He was a Hampshire man, born on the Isle of Wight and attesting there in December 1915. He was 19 years old and a licensed hawker by trade. He gave his address as 4 Castle Road, Cowes.

It wasn't until 16th March 1917 that William was called up. He initially joined a battalion of the Hampshire Regiment - number 243195 - transferred to the 1/5th Lincolnshire Regiment, and then transferred again to the Royal Berks in July 1917. He is buried in the Le Cateau Military Cemetery.

William's service record records that he was killed in action on the 23rd March 1918. This is at odds however, with the information on Soldiers Died in The Great War and The Commonwealth War Graves Commission and it is the latter which I am using as my reference.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC, WO 363)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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